Tag: painting

December 3, 2013 at 11:42 am

This Was Made with a Finger and 285,000 Brush Strokes… on an iPad

This Was Made with a Finger and 285,000 Brush Strokes... on an iPad

Artwork by KYLE LAMBERT Website | Facebook | Twitter | Google+ | Flickr | deviantART | YouTube The image you see above is not a photograph. It is actually a finger painting by Kyle Lambert using the Procreate app on an iPad Air. The mind-blowing portrait of actor Morgan Freeman (original photo by Scott…

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December 1, 2013 at 5:02 pm

Astonishing 3D Artworks Made from Multiple Layers of Painted Resin

Astonishing 3D Artworks Made from Multiple Layers of Painted Resin

Keng Lye is an artist and painter from Singapore. In an ongoing series of 3D paintings, Lye uses acrylics on multiple layers of resin to create stunning animal portraits. Lye cites Riusuke Fukahori as his inspiration for this style of painting. To see all artworks by Keng, be sure to check out his portfolio…

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November 24, 2013 at 5:37 pm

Artistic Mom Makes Amazing Mosaic with 10,000 ‘Dots’ of Play-Doh

Artistic Mom Makes Amazing Mosaic with 10,000 'Dots' of Play-Doh

One day, artist and mother of three Lacy Knudson was playing with Play-Doh with her children when she serendipitously mixed some colours together and made her first ‘dot’. It dawned on her that these dots could be a creative way to make art and still be with her children at the same time. Play-Doh…

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November 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm

Portraits of an Aging Superhero

Portraits of an Aging Superhero

Born in Falun and now based in Stockholm, Swedish artist Andreas Englund is best known for his funny and realistic oil paintings of an unknown, ageing superhero. The ongoing series seeks to challenge the stereotype of the superhero. On his Behance project description, Englund states: “I want to make pieces that communicate stories. With…

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November 12, 2013 at 5:31 pm

Artist Adds Star Wars Figures into Landscape Paintings

Artist Adds Star Wars Figures into Landscape Paintings

In a recent series entitled Wars on Kinkade, digital artist Jeff Bennett of Alien Artisan, decided to have a little fun with some artworks by American mass-market painter Thomas Kinkade (1958 – 2012). While Kinkade has received criticism for the extent to which he has commercialized his art (e.g., he sells prints of his…

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November 2, 2013 at 2:31 pm

Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings Looking Through Rainy Windshields

Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings Looking Through Rainy Windshields

Gregory Thielker is an American artist currently living in Ewing, New Jersey. An accomplished painter, Thielker received his BA in Art History from Williams College, his Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Washington University and has exhibited at numerous galleries across the country. In a series entitled Under the Unminding Sky, Thielker uses…

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October 5, 2013 at 12:39 pm

Pop Culture Portraits Painted onto Coins

Pop Culture Portraits Painted onto Coins

In a project entitled Tales You Lose (Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr), Brazilian artist and designer Andre Levy paints an array of pop culture portraits onto various coins from around the world. It’s interesting to see how a little paint and imagination can transform the same coin into a multitude of different characters and people. Below…

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October 3, 2013 at 4:37 pm

25 Musicians Painted Directly onto Vinyl Records

25 Musicians Painted Directly onto Vinyl Records

Daniel Edlen is an American artist best known for his ongoing series of vinyl artworks. Using white acrylic paint and a unique style of pointillism, Edlen paints amazingly realistic portraits of musicians directly onto vinyl records. Edlen, whose favourite band is the Beatles and favourite album is After Bathing at Baxter’s by Jefferson Airplane,…

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September 10, 2013 at 2:09 pm

40 Hidden Artworks Painted on the Edges of Books

40 Hidden Artworks Painted on the Edges of Books

A fore-edge painting is a technique of painting on the edges of the pages of a book. The artwork can only be seen when the pages are fanned, as seen in the animation below. When the book is closed, you don’t see the image because it is hidden by the gilding (i.e., the gold…

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September 5, 2013 at 4:46 pm

Artist Uses Modern Techniques to Preserve a Traditional Chinese Art Form

Artist Uses Modern Techniques to Preserve a Traditional Chinese Art Form

Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist and photographer from Shanghai. Born in 1980, he studied calligraphy and traditional Chinese landscape painting from an early age until graduating from the China Academy of Fine Art where he now teaches. His bio on White Rabbit summarizes Yongliang’s thoughts adeptly: A longtime student and devotee of shanshui,…

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